Farewell

August 8, 2010

With eight hours left until we leave for the airport, we are emotional. I think in the last ten minutes I personally have experienced excitement, nervousness and sadness all present at the same time, but at varying degrees. I keep telling myself its just another country; people travel to new places all the time. There’s […]

The Final Talk

August 3, 2010

On Sunday evening we had the opportunity to share at New Life church on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. It was great to be able to speak to over a hundred incredible student leaders about what we are doing and the way God has worked in our lives and brought us to point […]

Commissioned!

August 2, 2010

Yesterday was our official commissioning during the service at our sending church, Grace Point in Adrian, Michigan! Our pastors and elders stood us before the congregation and made it official, Grace Point Church is sending Tom & Beth Carlton to Papua New Guinea. On their behalf, and with their support, we will be messengers of […]

Tickets Purchased

July 28, 2010

It is done. The tickets are bought…We will be moving to Papua New Guinea on 8.9.10! PHEW! It is shocking how complicated buying tickets to get you to the other side of the world can be! Add the fact that we are trying to pinch pennies & traveling with a one year old and it […]

All in a Day

July 22, 2010

Being the wordy one that I am, I am dying to tell you how we got our visas! 🙂 The way God worked it all out was just so marvelous- it MUST be shared. For those of who did not know, we sent the applications for our visas in about two weeks after our missionary […]

Decision Made.

July 22, 2010

[The following text is a letter we sent out last night to everyone on our email update list. We send out these email updates about every other week, usually with pictures & prayer requests. This is the best way to stay informed about our ministry. Please contact us if you would like to receive these […]

Selling & Sharing

July 12, 2010

With our departure right around the corner we have been continually encouraged by the way God has been our Provider! The mission team of our sending church recently came up with a way to generate some funds to contribute towards our start up costs. They decided to have a church “garage” sale! The garage sale […]

??? Days to Departure

July 1, 2010

According to the official countdown, we have only eighteen days to go until our estimated departure date for Papua New Guinea. Wow. Even though we are scheduled to depart in a little over two weeks, there are still two hurdles that we are facing to reach our goals for departure. Waiting on Visas– One of the […]

Say Ahhhh!

June 9, 2010

There are many things that go into moving to a remote location that you may never think about. I have one word for you: TEETH! Yes, for the last several months or so, Tom and I have been traveling over an hour (one way) to go the the dental school to get much needed work […]

Journey of Grace

May 25, 2010

Recently my friend Jeff Schaap asked me if I would be willing to be interviewed for a video project he was working on as part of a job interview for a Senior Videographer position at Wycliffe Bible Translators. Jeff has been praying for some time about being involved in world missions by using his skills […]